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The Wombat State Forest (locally: Bullarook) is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, between Woodend and Daylesford, at the Great Dividing Range. The forest is approximately 70,000 hectares (170,000 acres) in size and sits upon Ordovician or Cenozoic sediments. The Bullarook Wombat State Forest was proclaimed in ...
Attractions for tourists and visitors include outdoor activities such as bushwalking and camping in the Lerderderg State Park and Wombat State Forest. The mineral springs at Blackwood are located on the banks of the Lerderderg River. There is an outlet on the car-park side, and another on the opposite side accessed by a footbridge.
The town is near the Western Freeway, 69 kilometres (43 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne and 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Bacchus Marsh. Situated close by the Lerderderg River, at the 2016 census, Myrniong had a population of 404. [1] The town is in the eastern area of Shire of Moorabool local government area.
The middle reaches of the river are dominated by Lake Eppalock, a constructed reservoir. The Coliban River , the most significant tributary of the Campaspe, also flows into Lake Eppalock. Towns located on the river in this area include Redesdale located just south of Eppalock and Axedale , located just below Eppalock.
The Shire of Moorabool is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of 2,111 square kilometres (815 sq mi) and, in June 2018, had a population of 34,158. [1]
Colebrook is one of the small communities in the northern part of the state that is in the path of totality, meaning the sun will be completely obscured by the moon. This is likely to last for ...
The Lerderderg River rises below the Blackwood Ranges, part of the Great Dividing Range, in the Lerderderg State Forest, near the locality of Blackwood.The river flows generally south by east in a highly meandering course, through the Lerderderg Gorge within the Wombat State Forest where it is joined by two minor tributaries, The Old River and Goodman Creek, before reaching its confluence with ...
Stringybark Creek is a small creek in the Wombat Ranges, Victoria, Australia. [1] It is famous for the place where three policemen were murdered on the 26th of October 1878. The policemen , Sergeant Michael Kennedy, Constable Thomas Lonigan, and Constable Michael Scanlan were searching the forest for the Kelly brothers, Ned and Dan Kelly .